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Lynda LeVanMay 10, 20171 min readEverythingVerbie and Hugh Prevost Award Winner for Outstanding Poetry from the Young Southern Student Writers Contest Maggie Thal, Grade 11 Signal...
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Billy FairesAug 4, 20161 min readVirtual Open Mic IVHIGH CHAIR We are drooling love-eaters Love lands on our trays in bite-sized chunks Some of it stringy and fibrous and other chunks sweet...
Crystal WhiteAug 3, 20163 min readVirtual Open Mic IIIHONESTY IN CHAOS I. A dusty garden of radishes So hot they burned my tongue My dead father’s deader dreams Long gone—and yet, I...
George HessAug 1, 20161 min readVirtual Open Mic ISILENCE I know I’ve never listened as I did yesterday to anything like the compelling seduction of absolute silence while sitting in my...
RhettSep 29, 201516 min readFresh Ink: Howard Brown Returns to Mississippi for Literary AwardHoward Brown's "Pariah" won the first-place prize in poetry in the Faulkner Literary Competition hosted by the Union County Historical...